UX Designer - Birmingham
Location: GB, BIR, 
Department: Development
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Associate
Required education: High School or equivalent
Industry: Marketing and Advertising
Function: Production

Company profile:
The Beans Group is a media company that exists to empower young people to thrive.  We have been on an exponential growth spurt since our inception as #URL_8d1ca4faf2d2518ce9ec21b3fbe5c63e4b47f383d6bb1f0a681ff6cc801b4550# in 2005 and in 2013 we won Digital Business of the Year. The Beans Group owns two brands: Student Beans, our youth media brand, strives to make life a little more awesome; and Voxburner, our youth insights consultancy, helps young people to be understood.We have created a business we are passionate about and really proud of. To continue to grow we need brilliant people who inspire and deliver change all around them - that's why we're looking for talented, ambitious and creative folks to come and join us.

Job description:
Award-Winning Technology Media Company Seek a Talented and Passionate UX Designer.The CompanyThe Beans Group is a media company that exists to empower young people to thrive.  We have been on an exponential growth spurt since our inception as #URL_8d1ca4faf2d2518ce9ec21b3fbe5c63e4b47f383d6bb1f0a681ff6cc801b4550# in 2005 and in 2013 we won Digital Business of the Year. The Beans Group owns two brands: Student Beans, our youth media brand, strives to make life a little more awesome; and Voxburner, our youth insights consultancy, helps young people to be understood.The RoleYou will drive UX best practice into our content, projects and strategy. You will have an amazing UX knowledge and practical expertise, you’ll be able to champion user centred design within the organisation, using your great communication skills to share best practice, run stakeholder workshops and requirements sessions, and carry out user testing activities. You will keep interfaces beautiful and easy to use and initiate, suggest, and spearhead major UI re-factorings for a more intuitive user-experience. You will design elegant solutions to complex workflows, things that people will talk about. Acting as the user-advocate during the development process, you will subject early-stage designs to usability testing and offering implementation suggestions from a user-centered perspective

Requirements:
Experience of working as part of a small, multidisciplinary project teamStrong conceptualization and visual communication abilityAbility to create wireframes, behavioural specifications, sitemaps and prototypes as well as visual design compsStrong working knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and associated design toolsExperience in creating Responsive Web DesignAn aptitude for team collaboration and open communicationA thorough understanding of contemporary user-centered design methodologies

Benefits:
Life at The Beans GroupThere are many things that make working at The Beans Group rewarding but we believe that a business is only as good as the people who work there - which is why we only hire great people! We are building a business which we are passionate about and really proud of. If you have what it takes to delight, inspire and empower those around you, then these are some of the things you can look forward to enjoying…Multiple Award-Winning Company and Brands; Entrepreneurial Startup Culture with Security of being Fully-Self-Funded; Major Growth Plans; Awesome Team; Competitive Salary; In-House Training and Development; International Opportunities; Childcare Vouchers; Office Remote-Control Helicopter and Nerf Gun Collection; World Renown Speakers - Past speakers include David Allen &amp; David Taylor**Recruitment AgenciesIf you want to work with us on this role, please take a look at our instructions here. We do not work with agencies in any capacity other than this and do not take sales calls under any circumstances. If you ignore these simple guidelines, we can't work with you. They'll tell you everything you need to know.